303286 (v.3) CAS - Mental Health Issues 223

Area:

Centre for Aboriginal Studies

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

30.0

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **

Seminar:

1 x 30 Hours Quarterly

Prerequisite(s):

303268 (v.1) CAS - Mental Health of Indigenous People 212

Syllabus:

Stressors - past and present conditions of deprivation, discrimination, dispossession and injustice. Child rearing practices - parenting, child growth and development. Mental health issues - alcoholism, drug addiction, domestic violence, victims of abuseand suicide, clinical picture and causative factors, care and prevention. Statistical picture - Australian Bureau of Statistics on selected mental health issues. Agencies for mental health issues. Purpose, staff management and financial management.

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Field of Education:

90300 Studies in Human Society (Narrow Grouping)

Funding Cluster:

05 - Behavioural Science, Social Studies

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Pass/Fail

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2005	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External